A recent article from the SIRC Collection points to 10
things we should all know about attitude and how it affects us:
- Having a good attitude is a choice. A person’s state of mind is what they choose it to be. We can choose how we think about something and how we will act in response.
- Attitude can be changed. While we may have what we consider an automatic response to something, we can choose whether or not to have a different attitude to it, we can make our attitudes whatever we want them to be.
- Attitudes aren’t shaped in a vacuum. A great number of factors influence the development of an individual’s attitude, from personality and temperament, to family and social environments.
- Attitudes can be enhanced by adversity. Successful people recognize that adversity can be used to learn more about ourselves and in effect turn failures into successes.
- Attitude can determine whether a person is a success or a failure. Research indicates that for the most part, people with positive attitudes are much more likely to achieve success than people who look at things from a negative perspective.
- Attitude affects a person’s relationship with other people. A positive attitude often gives off an infectious energy just like another’s negative attitude often feels like the energy is being sucked out of you
- Attitude can affect outcome. Having a positive attitude will be more likely to breed success than an negative expectation or outlook.
- Attitude affects what a person expects from life. “Positive people expect more and tend to achieve more”.
- Attitudes can turn problems into opportunities. People with a positive attitude can adapt to just about any situation and see where it can be improved.
- Attitude determines who a person is. A person with a positive attitude engages in life unlike those with a negative attitude who see life as something that happens to them. “Individuals with a positive attitude live their lives with passion.”
Attitude can be developed as one aspect of mental training.
Being mindful of our attitude during training, competition and performance, we
can exert a conscious effort to approach situations with an attitude focused on
success. Use attitude as one more tool in your arsenal for personal achievement
on and off the field.
Reference:
Peterson, J.A. (2012). 10 Things Health/Fitness Professionals
Should Know About Attitude. ACSM’s Health & Fitness Journal, 16(1), 46.
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